The Lionheart
With tenacity born from a scrappy childhood and with charisma that has endeared him to everybody from college undergraduates to New York's elite, Vartan Gregorian has redefined the notion of public intellectual. BY jesse oxfeld

The Bard, the Bunny and the Beat
Scholars and students pry open the past at Stanford's special collections, a trove of the rare and priceless. BY Theresa Johnston

The Emergence of Nicole Krauss
She began as a poet, enthralled by the work of Joseph Brodsky. Now Nicole Krauss’s novel The History of Love is getting wide acclaim and something she didn't expect - a wide audience. BY ANN MARSH